The Express ran a headline yesterday saying this: As they noted: A total of 9.6 million people have benefited from the [furlough] scheme since its
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The government is planning to force hundreds of thousands of UK companies out of business if they can’t repay their coronavirus loans, which is a plan for UK national economic suicide
As the FT reports this morning: Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to rebuff City of London calls for a new state-owned body that would refinance
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We need a National Wealth Service to help business recover from coronavirus, and the government is going exactly the wrong way to deliver it
Four think tanks, and not a solution in sight
The UK’s leading think tanks believe that the least well off in our country should be paying more tax to pay the price for coronavirus
As the Guardian has noted this morning: Tax increases will be needed across the board for Britain’s highest and lowest earners to bring down record levels
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How many U turns can a government make?
No one is surprised that this government made mistakes when dealing with coronavirus. Everyone would have done. Dealing with the unknown is always going to
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The reality of Covid-19 is already hitting smaller business supply chains and their chances of survival but the government seems wholly unaware of it
I had a fascinating conversation with the manager of a local business yesterday. The discussion was about her stock displays. It was apparent that she
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We’re in recession, and worse than almost anyone else, which is this government’s fault
It will be no surprise to anyone that the UK is officially in recession. UK GDP fell for the second quarter in a row according
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